Tullem Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Couldn't find a previous thread so here goes. Just been day dreaming about the future of the World Cup and the potential locations that could host the competition in 2026, 2030,...etc. and was wondering if anyone has ever found the World Cup hosted in any unusual places in game. My current longest save in this year's game has only reached 2023 and Mexico have been awarded the 2026 final. Also fairly interested in how the game decides this? And how much the player as manager can influence this call. (For instance, if a player took a team from, say, Croatia to best in the world and subsequently improved the rep of the league which improved other clubs and stadiums etc, would that give Croatia a greater chance of hosting it?) As FIFA announced they are no longer using the continent rotation policy it would be interesting to see how the game ultimately decides the host of the WC throughout the years. Would love to see co-hosting by small nations (Indonesia-Malaysia for example) occur in the game, though I fear it probably just rotates between the usual suspects. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Here are the hosts so far in my game: 2026 USA 2030 Spain 2034 Japan 2038 Egypt 2042 Portugal 2046 China 2050 Argentina 2054 France 2058 South Korea 2062 South Africa 2066 Italy 2070 USA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tullem Posted May 18, 2014 Author Share Posted May 18, 2014 Pretty standard there really then, I want to see like Kenya host it or something, something unusual and interesting haha. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonBlade Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 2026 - Morocco 2030 - Spain 2034 - South Korea 2038 - Mexico Hmm. Morocco is a bit of a turn-up. I wish someone would choose my stadium for World Cup matches. 145000 seater. C'mon England, bid damn you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animasta Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 2026 - Morocco 2030 - Spain 2034 - South Korea 2038 - Mexico Hmm. Morocco is a bit of a turn-up. I wish someone would choose my stadium for World Cup matches. 145000 seater. C'mon England, bid damn you. Morocco got it in mine in 2030. I guess they're one of the more stable presences in northern Africa... I wish Ghana got it though, especially considering the strength of their team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kris0710 Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 In my long term save- 2026 - USA 2030 - Spain 2034 - Japan 2038 - Egypt 2042 - Germany 2046 - South Korea 2050 - South Africa 2054 - Russia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik_Dut Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Indonesia-Malaysia? God no.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavo01 Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Here are mine from a save from which I've holidayed for testing purposes. Very similar to dafuge's list of hosts. Whats more bizarre is that Paraguay have become a world force!!! :confused: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tullem Posted May 19, 2014 Author Share Posted May 19, 2014 Indonesia-Malaysia? God no.... There was talk of a South Asia joint bid not long ago, Indonesia - Malaysia - Vietnam. Not sure how that'd work IRL. Wouldn't hurt to see it in-game rather tho Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameuss Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Isn't it pretty much on a long rotation in all FM saves? I've always seen it alternate around the same old hosts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robzilla Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Here are mine from my current save: No real surprises there as far as hosts go. I guess these largely come down to infrastructure, security, quality of stadia (and massive bribes obviously). However - Belgium win it in 2014 and ROMANIA win it in 2018? Wow. Chile come second in 2014 and again in 2022. Props to the Super Eagles for getting third place in in Qatar in 2022! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tullem Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 Funnily enough robzilla I just started a new game and this was the result of Brazil 2014.. Look out for Chile IRL (Bound to be **** now) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aderow Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Weird places? You mean like Qatar? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexdelta Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Not the World Cup, but in my game Scotland/Wales had the 2028 Euros and England the 2032 Euros. Wouldn't surprise me if the 2036 Euros go to Ireland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawlore Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Weird places? You mean like Qatar? By far the weirdest. You know something's wrong in football when FM does a better job of generating appropriate hosts than real life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinnott99 Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Here are mine from a save from which I've holidayed for testing purposes.Very similar to dafuge's list of hosts. Whats more bizarre is that Paraguay have become a world force!!! :confused: No! What is bizzare is that England have won the world cup 3 times in 32 years! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljwjones Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Weird places? You mean like Qatar? Got to say as i read through the pictures I was like "spain normal, mexico normal, Qatar...wt.." then realised wait thats actually happening. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyoscy Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 In FM 07, the 2034 World Cup is in China. Also, some time around 2020 - 2026 the Asian Cup is hosted by tiny Chinese administrative region Macau, who get destroyed 8-0 by everyone. I'm pretty sure every match in the cup was played in one stadium. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey2008 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 I don't know if this is related in any way or points to something dynamic able to happen with the match engine, but I did a test save with the San MArino league added to my game and gave all sammarinese teams sugar daddies, raised their reputation a notch, made the national stadium at least 20,000 capacity and over 30 years the league got to a decent reputation spot (Maybe 40th). As all this is happening in the background, in 2030-something I played in the European Super Cup at the San Marino national stadium. I wonder if the same logic could theoretically apply to WC hosts. If you artificially inflate the reputation of a country does it pop into the rotational list of host countries? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adhikapp Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 There was talk of a South Asia joint bid not long ago, Indonesia - Malaysia - Vietnam. Not sure how that'd work IRL. Wouldn't hurt to see it in-game rather tho Those countries + Thailand hosted the 2007 Asian Cup and it was already bizarre. I can't imagine any joint bid clubs from ASEAN, no way they're taking qualification places off of Japan Korea Australia Iran etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laBOMBA Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Funnily enough robzilla I just started a new game and this was the result of Brazil 2014.. Look out for Chile IRL (Bound to be **** now) As a Belgian, I'm happy to see we're up there in a few of the screenshots. In my save game we didn't get further than quarter finals. As far as hosts concerns, I also have Mexico as the host for 2026. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tullem Posted May 23, 2014 Author Share Posted May 23, 2014 I wonder if the same logic could theoretically apply to WC hosts. If you artificially inflate the reputation of a country does it pop into the rotational list of host countries? Yeah this is essentially what I was wondering. Am trying to play an Oceania game at the moment, about 20 years in and my Cook Islands team is going up the rankings but I feel it may still be 100 years until I can get them to a force where hosting the world cup may be likely (if this is at all possible in game) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameuss Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Yeah this is essentially what I was wondering. Am trying to play an Oceania game at the moment, about 20 years in and my Cook Islands team is going up the rankings but I feel it may still be 100 years until I can get them to a force where hosting the world cup may be likely (if this is at all possible in game) Even if the Cook Islands won the World Cup, surely they would never be considered a host? Where are they going to put 8 stadiums? I'm fairly sure there's no mechanism in there to add countries to the rotation. I'd probably say that's the right thing to do as well - accurately determining whether a country could conceivably host a tournament in the future is difficult. I would only add huge countries - places like China perhaps, if they improve. Or India. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tullem Posted May 23, 2014 Author Share Posted May 23, 2014 In the edit file I'm using they have 7 teams with stadiums and a national stadium (fortunate to make 8 haha). I'm not saying it would be doable really, but would be nice to hear if there was a way in which increase in stature of a nation in game influences the chances of hosting the world cup. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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